Usually means: Assigning someone to specific category.
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  1. pigeonholing: Merriam-Webster
  2. pigeonholing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pigeonholing: Vocabulary.com
  4. pigeonholing: Wordnik
  5. pigeonholing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pigeonholing: Wiktionary
  7. pigeonholing: Dictionary.com
  8. pigeonholing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pigeonholing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. pigeonholing: Rhymezone
  11. pigeonholing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. pigeonholing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. pigeonholing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pigeonholing: Legal dictionary

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  1. pigeonholing: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pigeonholing)

▸ noun:  The classification of disparate entities into categories, not always for the right reason.

Similar:
grouping, category mistake, misclassification, miscompartmentalization, miscategorisation, category-mistake, miscategorization, mislabeling, missclassification, category error, more...

Opposite:
unclassifying, categorizing, generalizing

Types:
gender, race, age, occupation, nationality, religion, more...

Adjectives:
such, easy, neat, arbitrary, racial, mere, ideological, simple, tidy, critical, mechanical

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Similar:
grouping, category mistake, misclassification, miscompartmentalization, miscategorisation, category-mistake, miscategorization, mislabeling, missclassification, category error, more...

Opposite:
unclassifying, categorizing, generalizing

Types:
gender, race, age, occupation, nationality, religion, more...

Adjectives:
such, easy, neat, arbitrary, racial, mere, ideological, simple, tidy, critical, mechanical



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